Tunnel Vision - Kate Tempest.mp3

[00:00.00] 作词 : Kate Tempest/Dan Carey
[00:00.00] 作曲 : Kate Tempest/Dan Carey
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[00:17.80]Indigenous apocalypse, decimated forest, the Winter of our discontent’s upon us
[00:22.28]Desolate apostles, left with Strongbow at the crossroads
[00:24.79]We are nothing but an eating mouth, oesophagus, colossal
[00:27.63]We won’t stop until we’ve beaten down the planet into pellets
[00:29.91]Before the interstellar mission to inflict more terror
[00:32.54]It’s killing me, it’s killing me, it’s filling me, I’m vomiting, it’s still in me
[00:35.65]Everything is fine really, silly me
[00:37.56]Poor kids shot dead, poor kids locked up
[00:40.12]Poor kids saying, “This is the future that you left us?”
[00:42.50]Stopped up lunch meat, processed, punch from an unclean fatcat
[00:45.94]Tasty, tasty poison
[00:47.36]Carcinogenic, diabetic, asthmatic, epileptic, post-traumatic, bipolar and disaffected
[00:52.29]Atomised, thinking we’re engaged when we’re pacified
[00:54.93]Staring at the screen so we don’t have to see the planet die
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[01:02.24]What we gonna do to wake up?
[01:04.78]We sleep so deep, it don’t matter how they shake us
[01:07.36]If we can’t face it, we can’t escape it
[01:09.69]But tonight the storm’s come
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[01:12.46]She’s screaming, she’s screaming
[01:13.69]The drones turned her beautiful boy into a pile of bones
[01:16.56]No body to bury, nobody is home
[01:18.68]Running from war, the boat’s full, the boat’s sinking a mile off shore
[01:22.23]No beds in the hospitals, our minds are against us
[01:24.95]Imagine your daughter was gunned down defenceless on her way to school
[01:28.76]There’d be uproar
[01:29.41]But she’s collateral damage, it doesn’t matter
[01:31.84]Now if our kids are fine, that’s enough for us
[01:34.06]You can’t love into a vacuum, there’s got to be a limit
[01:36.73]Welcome to the biggest crime that’s ever been committed
[01:39.31]You think you and I are different kinds, you’re caught up in specifics
[01:41.69]You and I apart are easier to limit
[01:44.12]The illusion’s so complete it’s impossible to bring it into focus
[01:47.20]Cinematic stock footage, you think people are locusts
[01:49.87]Uniform men keep unleashing explosives
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[01:52.48]What we gonna do to wake up?
[01:53.84]We sleep so deep, it don’t matter how they shake us
[01:56.66]If we can’t face it, we can’t escape it
[01:58.98]But tonight the storm’s come
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[02:01.80]Tunnel vision, tunnel vision
[02:03.06]Work, drinks, heartbreak
[02:04.76]You can’t face the past, the past’s a dark place
[02:06.95]Can’t sleep, can’t wake, sitting in our boxes
[02:09.22]Notching up our victories as other people’s losses
[02:11.70]Another day, another chance to turn your face away from pain
[02:14.97]Let’s get a takeaway
[02:15.73]And meet me in the pub a little later, we’ll say the same things as ever
[02:18.68]Life’s a waiting game
[02:19.96]When we gonna see that life is happening?
[02:22.60]And that every single body bleeding on its knees is an abomination
[02:26.28]And every natural being is making communication
[02:28.92]And we’re just sparks, tiny parts of a bigger constellation
[02:32.34]We’re miniscule molecules that make up one body
[02:35.24]You see the tragedy and pain of a person that you’ve never met
[02:39.19]Is present in your nightmares, in your pull towards despair
[02:42.35]And the sickness of the culture, and the sickness in our hearts
[02:45.48]Is a sickness that’s inflicted by this distance that we share
[02:48.64]Now, it was our bombs that started this war
[02:51.91]And now it rages far away
[02:53.24]So we dismiss all its victims as strangers
[02:55.64]But they’re parents and children made dogs by the danger
[02:58.33]Existence is futile, so we don’t engage
[03:01.68]But it was our boats that sailed, killed, stole, and made frail
[03:05.67]It was our boots that stamped
[03:07.37]It was our courts that jailed
[03:08.76]And it was our niggas’ banks that got bailed
[03:10.92]It was us who turned bleakly away
[03:12.78]Looked back down at our nails and our wedding plans
[03:15.36]In the face of a full-force gale, we said
[03:17.79]“Well, it’s not up to us to make this place a better land
[03:20.54]It’s not up to us to make this place a better land.”
[03:24.14]Justice, justice, recompense, humility
[03:28.06]Trust is, trust is something we will never see
[03:31.27]Till love is unconditional
[03:32.95]The myth of the individual has left us disconnected, lost, and pitiful
[03:38.59]I’m out in the rain
[03:40.65]It’s a cold night in London
[03:42.58]And I’m screaming at my loved ones to wake up and love more
[03:46.69]I’m pleading with my loved ones to wake up and love more
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